Evaluating my life as a gothic horror movie

[pyesetz]

I have occasionally used the phrase "gothic horror movie" to describe the recurring themes of my life, and why I felt so at home at Company ℱ, and why I have never wanted to work at RIM or most other companies in my local area (because they are more "gladiator movie" than "gothic horror").  My wife has used "Addams Family" to describe her first

Comments

[xolo]

"How to Tell You're Living in a Gothic Novel"

I believe I've expressed to you before my conviction that at the spiritual and political heart of Massachusetts there is an eldritch thing which drives men to embrace madness. Moving far away is sometimes not enough to escape the horror.

*****

Built in Gothic period: No, my house dates from 1870.

1870 is around the end of the Gothic Revival, you know. Now I want to see a picture of the house!

For me, the Queen Anne has always been the architecture of most sinister portent, chiefly (entirely, I suspect) because I read too much MR James as a child, with his characters always finding a lovely Queen Anne cottage for rent, suspiciously cheap...

*****

For myself, I try to live in Equestria. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I find myself living in some dystopian social SF novel instead.

[pyesetz]

I believe I've expressed to you before my conviction that at the spiritual and political heart of Massachusetts there is an eldritch thing which drives men to embrace madness.

This does sound vaguely familiar, but my archives of LiveJournal comments do not contain any previous mention of "eldritch" and very few mentions of "Massachusetts" in comments from you.

Moving far away is sometimes not enough to escape the horror.

Tell me about it!  You can move the boy out of the Bay State, but you can't excise the Bay State from the boy - and the Good Lord knows I've tried.

Now I want to see a picture of the house!

Here you go!  And that post already has a comment from you.  Unfortunately, the under-mudroom space doesn't photograph well.  Google says it would take only six hours for you to drive up here to see it!

I read too much MR James as a child

Wikipedia says that James "abandoned many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and used more realistic contemporary settings".  But Queen Anne was "contemporary" for James

[stuffedwithfluf]

"4c. Witch/sorceress: I'll let my wife answer this one."

To quote Stevie Nicks "There is magic all around you, if I do say so myself. I have known this much longer than I've known you."

[pyesetz]

You have a bit of a way with things, yourself.

[stuffedwithfluf]

"My wife has used "Addams Family" to describe her first visit to my parents' house."

They're creepy and they're kooky...

Well, at least they were such things. It was a very odd weekend.